James Mills wrote: > I've noticed over the past few weeks lots of questions > asked about multi-processing (including myself).
While these are fair points, did you perhaps mean to send this to python-list rather than python-dev? Cheers, Nick. > > For those of you new to multi-processing, perhaps this > thread may help you. Some things I want to start off > with to point out are: > > "multiprocessing will not always help you get things done faster." > > "be aware of I/O bound applications vs. CPU bound" > > "multiple CPUs (cores) can compute multiple concurrent expressions - > not read 2 files concurrently" > > "in some cases, you may be after distributed processing rather than > multi or parallel processing" > > cheers > James > > -- > -- "Problems are solved by method" > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/ncoghlan%40gmail.com > -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia --------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
